Concur Rick. I have grown Minowase # 3. Definitely a fall radish. Bolts when spring planted. Tolerates frost but not a freeze. Similar to turnip. I prefer Chinese and Korean winter radishes to the Japanese. Personal favorite is Watermelon, I also like Rose Winter and Tae Baek. Watermelon does well spring planted, But I prefer to use spring space for quick maturing European types.

>> I have grown Minowase # 3. Definitely a fall radish. Bolts when spring planted. Tolerates frost but not a freeze.

Those look really healthy, Dillard, but I learned my lesson about Daikons. Even when the vendor calls them "mild", I call them "hot". I think they meant "mild for a Daikon". If I use more of my saved seeds, I'll plant in spring and eat the seed pods. Those were very good!

It's interesting to me that they "know" the difference between spring and fall, like Chinese cabbage. Maybe the changing daylength, maybe they can distinguish between "getting longer" and "getting shorter"?

What I bought recently were two that might be like a 'French Breakfast' type, plus a "Giant Butter Radish" sold by Franchi.

Radish 'Flamboyant 3 ' (Franchi, Not spicy. Direct seed in early spring and again in fall. These guys don't care, I guess!)
Dragon Radish (cylindrical, 4-8 inches long, allegedly mild)
Radish Burro Gigante (giant butter)


I might try Watermelon.

Kvent42 said:My radishes didn't radish! Any idea why they didn't grow as radishes normally would?

I had the same problem this year. I think too much compost/nitrogen... All leaf, no radish! But, BTW, the small round ones did better than the larger cylindrical kinds... For what its worth....

Just pulled my first fall radishes. Icicle. They same to tolerate the hot soil better than the Champion and Rudolph plant at the same time. Later plantings seem to be coming along well now that the soil is cooling. Kvent, Hope you are beginning to have success.